Windows Server 2003 has no suspend option

seamus

Right, this is a noodle scratcher.

I have no option to put my server into suspend mode. The Hibernate option is there, but that's not ideal, since you have to hit the power button to bring it out of hibernation. But the server can be sitting idle for hours at a time, so I don't want it eating up power.
The BIOS has the S1 and S3 power states enabled.

Motherboard is an ABIT VA-20

Any ideas?

Tom Dunne

Have you tried holding down the shift key?

Works on XP, might be the same.

seamus

Hold down shift when?

Gilgamesh

afaik Windows 2003 doesn't have the suspend feature in it.

JDxtra

seamus wrote:

But the server can be sitting idle for hours at a time, so I don't want it eating up power.

Is electricity very expensive where your server is located or something... Or are you running a server OS on your laptop??

Capt'n Midnight

Why does it even have a hibernate option - is this to allow you to physically move the server or something ?

Ranks up there with the guy who wanted NLM's for a novell server laptop because they used to put it the safe overnight.

Another option that I haven't got working would be to setup the BIOS to wake up on Lan, shutdown the server and use magic packets to wake it up

AMD MagicPacket software
Advanced IP Scanner

seamus

jdempsey wrote:

Is electricity very expensive where your server is located or something... Or are you running a server OS on your laptop??

No, but there's no point in wastage.

CM, I had an extensive look, and I'm fairly sure my Motherboard doesn't support Wake on LAN. Which is a bit of a pain.

zAbbo

Ive a feeling this aint a server

Might be some help on google - http://www.google.ie/search?q=windows+2003+workstation

rsynnott

seamus wrote:

Right, this is a noodle scratcher.

I have no option to put my server into suspend mode. The Hibernate option is there, but that's not ideal, since you have to hit the power button to bring it out of hibernation. But the server can be sitting idle for hours at a time, so I don't want it eating up power.
The BIOS has the S1 and S3 power states enabled.

Motherboard is an ABIT VA-20

Any ideas?

Well of course it doesn't. It's a server. To be honest, if you're worried about the the thing's power consumption, maybe you shouldn't be running such a mind-numbingly expensive OS?

Anyway, servers are normally expected to be on all the time. What are you doing with it?

seamus

rsynnott wrote:

Well of course it doesn't. It's a server. To be honest, if you're worried about the the thing's power consumption, maybe you shouldn't be running such a mind-numbingly expensive OS?

Anyway, servers are normally expected to be on all the time. What are you doing with it?

Heh, thought I'd mentioned it. It's connected to the home network. Does general filesharing duties, DHCP, web services for my own development, database server, etc.

It doesn't get all that much use though, spends most of the night and working day sitting idle. I suppose I could install folding @ home and some of those other "idle CPU time" users on it.

Microsoft's KB mentions suspend on the OS....

Tom Dunne

seamus wrote:

Hold down shift when?

You know how you select Start->Shutdown on Windows XP, a window appears with three options - Suspend, Shutdown and Switch User. If you hold down shift, Suspend changes to Hibernate. Click on it and off to sleep it goes.

rsynnott

seamus wrote:

Heh, thought I'd mentioned it. It's connected to the home network. Does general filesharing duties, DHCP, web services for my own development, database server, etc.

It doesn't get all that much use though, spends most of the night and working day sitting idle. I suppose I could install folding @ home and some of those other "idle CPU time" users on it.

Microsoft's KB mentions suspend on the OS....

Unless it's huge, it prob'ly doesn't use a dramatic amount of energy, compared to say a light bulb...